The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-12
SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT.
Cause of the Observation-Disclosures I
Trnlnmeu-OiicIals Taciturn. q

Cause OF the Observation-Disclosures of
Trainmen-OnicIals Taciturn.
kouTs, md, Oct. 11.-This afternoon
when tho reporters who had been long
delayed in reaching Ko1ts owing to the
secretiyensss Of tho railroad officials, be.
gan at Last to arrive, tharo Was little in the
aspect Of the village to indicate the real
locality OF the wsock. Only two OF the
wounded wera still <in the village and the
local employees Of the road were deaf and
dumb to all eeekerp after statements OF
witnesses and the villsgers seemed wholly
OF sea regarding the extent of the
disaster. About the only person
about and willing to tell the details Of the
horror WAS DR.. O. W. Mckee. The Doc.
tor is a prosperous locking. intelligent
man OF about 81, who promptly responded
in tho dead of night to call tnat be take
a haud-car and 20 to the acane OF the
wreck, three miles from his reaidence,
DR.. Mckee rendered noble service. He
had scant time to give his experience in
in detail, but stated that to the bsst OF his
knowledge it would not be oveyotatinQ the
facls to say that the collision had cost the
lives OF fully thirty people. It was Short
ly after 10 o'clock this morning when he
reached the wreck, and he Immediately
began to give his services to the wounded.
Those who were bsdly hurt when the
crush came, he Bays, must have had -, F"
LITTLE GRANGE FOR THEIR LIVES,
so quickly had tho cars taken FIRE and so
thorough was the work of the famea. AS
an illustration Of .hs destitution and the
difficulty of arriving at g correct idea Of
ita magnitude, the doctor said that proba.
bly, not soul would have been mede
aware OF the Ill but total wiping out Of
the Miller family Of six had not their
boy besn saved. Dr.. Mckee stated that
only nine bodies had been recovered, and
thsy were 80 badly charrsd as to bo al
most beyond recognition, the most left of
them being blacksned trunk and in
some cases little beyond few handfuls
Of ashes. The nine were as follows: & !.
The Miller family Of Dundee, father,
mother, two brothers aud girl, (their Ii.
year-old boy Herman will probably die
aiso}; Dr.. Perry, Of North Judson, Ind,
D.. PerIy's wife. daughter and young
Irish lady,. &c. l,#5''
OFFICIALS coScEALlNG THE TRUTH.
Snpt. Parsons, Of the Chicago 4 Allan.
Tic, was seen late in the afternoon pacing
the station platform. He was extremely
tacituyn and was very sure that no more
bodiea could be found. Only nine pesaons
had been killed, he declared, ard not more
than eleven or twelve hurt. None OF thu
latter seriously. He admitted that no
aagman had been cent back from the
passenger train when stop was made
Mr.. Farcons said that the trsinmen de-
pended upon semaphore light, fully
1000 feet in tho rear OF where the stop
was made. Tho conductor d Of the
train had pulled the cord for this
Light when he stopped bis train.
This would throw tho glare OF red dan.
ger signal on the track. The night, how
over, vas foggy and the engineer Of the
iaBt freight must have failed to see the
signal. Superintendent Parsons thought
the accident would have been very or.
dlnary one had not the stove in the sleeper
upset. That caused tho destruction OF the
sleeper, two coaches aud baggage car, and
IA the nlsi9 wae doubtless the cause Of the
loss life. The coioIsr, III. Parsons said,
reached the scene from Valparaiso, Ind,
ct II A. NJ, and after vie wing the debris
aud making come inquiries had found It
necessary to- 60 to Huntington, Ind, in
search of .witnesseH. Tho wounded, Mr..
Parsons says, had been taken from there
% early as possible, and the passengers
who were unhurt to the number Of TWEEN.
ty.sye had been forwarded to their des,
tinstion without delay. " .. !. 80; 4 a
QUEER ACTIONS OF OPTICIANS. " 4
All efforts to obtain information from
Huntington au to the names Of the killed
and wounded have up to this time been
rnaYall:ag. The Chicsgo & Atlantic rail.
way othciale, whp vent there with the
coroner to-day, seeup to have complete
possession OF all sources ofinio.mstlor on
this point, and they refuse to make publif
the names ofthe victims OF the disaster,
The killed and wounded were taken irom
the scene OF the wreck to Huntington
esriy snis afternoon, accompanied by the
coroner. 5sS i3i1j5iii -. sll n
NJ Connlctlh hg Keporta. iiglslis 3ls,ls,3
CulcAoo, Oct. 1.-THE Daily Ne,ps
special from Koub, Ind. aays y! twenty